
Death Stranding is an exceptional Action/Adventure that raises the bar for the genre.
90
Verdict
93%
Steam
84
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Very Positive on Steam (93% positive from 79K reviews)
Critically acclaimed (84/100 critic average)
Compelling narrative and story
Rich open world to explore
No significant drawbacks reported
Death Stranding is a 2019 action-adventure game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is the first game from director Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions after their split from Konami in 2015. It was first released for PlayStation 4 in November 2019, followed by a Windows port in July 2020. A director's cut was released for PlayStation 5 in September 2021, followed by releases for Windows in March 2022, iOS, iPadOS and macOS in January 2024, and Amazon Luna and Xbox Series X/S in November 2024. Sony published the game on their consoles, while 505 Games published all other versions under license from Kojima Productions.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 3d ago
After getting 100% steam achievements done, these are my thoughts: An amazing game that's not for everyone. I'm sad to have finally finished it all. Some games I've 100%'d felt like a hassle near the end. This one was fun all the way through. Some people will glance at this game and see it as a walking simulator where the main character is the mailman chugging energy drinks. Some manage to see past that first obvious layer and see the beauty underneath it. The relaxing sensations of walking a mountain while absorbing the stunning visuals and the tasteful soundtrack. Then you start seeing the game for what it truly is. A neo-social interactive experience. Neither a multiplayer game nor a single player. One where your actions and decisions can influence others, if they let you to. One where you can lay a helping hand to a faceless stranger, just for the sake of doing the helping. And be helped just the same, if you let yourself be helped. Last but not least, its probably one of the fastest loading games I've experienced. The optimization is truly asian-level.
Better than DS2. The plot completely interprets the real name of the game. The game is gloom and everything of this is succeeds. The second part is already a circus, story is made up - It's very banal and predictable. DS1 is finished with the plot and it has an open finished ending. The second part is already a pipeline of bugs that didnt exist in DS1 on playstation and PC. There are no changes in the mechanics at all. It's the same thing. It's just a shame that Kojima didn't do anything at all this 5 years. The second part could have been better in terms of maps and locations, but they are even worse. The graphics in the first part are even better without ray tracing - it's just a shame about Nvidia - your technology is absolute marketing garbage for idiots. Everything can be done perfectly without AI, but the game developers got impudent and lost any honor at all - garbage trash. The second part have good music but first have too and soundtrack better than DS2. If the first part already had music from the second, then the second part would have absolutely total zero in comparison to DS1. The first part is more mature. The second one is a children's circus :) Death Stranding 2 - Konveyer Uebish
Boring trash. Game not being available anymore is actually a good thing. Too bad they did that after I already spent money on it
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